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180 Facts About Paul Tracy

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Paul Tracy started kart racing at age five and quickly became successful and began car racing at sixteen, finishing third in the 1985 Formula Ford 1600 championship with one win and Rookie of the Year honors.

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Paul Tracy raced in the American Racing Series for three years between 1988 and 1990, winning the series title with nine wins from fourteen races in 1990.

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Paul Tracy competed with Penske in eleven races during the 1992 season, finishing on the podium three times.

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Paul Tracy won another three races in the 1997 season before being fired for criticizing the car and joined Team Green the following year.

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Paul Tracy was third in the 1999 championship with two victories but fell to fifth in 2000 season despite three more wins.

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Paul Tracy's form declined over the next two seasons but won one race in 2002.

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Paul Tracy joined Forsythe Racing in the 2003 championship, winning his first series title with seven victories.

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Paul Tracy's performance declined during a 2006 season in which he took three podium finishes.

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Paul Tracy entered NASCAR-sanctioned stock car races in its Busch Series and the Camping World Truck Series, sports car racing through the Rolex Sports Car Series as well as the Stadium Super Trucks and the Superstar Racing Experience.

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Paul Tracy analysed IndyCar races for the Canadian broadcaster Sportsnet in the 2013 season and then for NBCSN between the 2014 and 2021 seasons.

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Paul Tracy is an inductee of the Long Beach Motorsports Walk of Fame and the Canadian Motorsport Hall of Fame.

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Paul Tracy was born in Scarborough, Ontario, Canada on December 17,1968, and grew up in the working-class bedroom suburb east of Toronto.

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Paul Tracy is the son of Northern Ireland-born house painter Tony Tracy, who was the president of Trabur Painting, and his English wife Vivienne Tracy.

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Paul Tracy has two older half-sisters from his father's first marriage and a younger sister.

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Paul Tracy attended Jack Miner Public High School and continued attending while karting, graduating after passing all of his subjects.

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Paul Tracy got his first miniature motorized mini-bike when he was four, and received his first small motorized children's go-kart from his father aged five.

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Paul Tracy's father's painting company provided enough funds for his son to compete in karts and, later, cars.

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Paul Tracy drove every weekend on tracks in Central and Eastern Canada as well as the Northern United States; Tracy had to prepare and maintain his kart because his father worked long hours.

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Paul Tracy won the Canadian Senior Karting Championship twice and 91 of 94 races in his first full senior season.

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Paul Tracy entered the North American Race of Champions and finished in the top ten of the Karting World Championship twice.

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Paul Tracy stopped racing karts upon turning 15, and his father had Goodyear teach him how to drive and handle race cars, as well as car setup.

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Paul Tracy finished third in the Formula Ford 1600 Championship with one victory, and was named Rookie of the Year.

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Paul Tracy raced in the 1985 CASC Formula 1600 Challenge Series with Colin Hines Racing in a small Van Diemen RF85-Ford formula open-wheel car.

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Paul Tracy was Formula Ford's youngest Canadian champion following a season-long battle with Scott Maxwell.

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Paul Tracy retired from the CASC Formula Ford 2000 Canadian Run-Off in a Van Diemen RF86 and won the CASC Formula Ford 1600 Canadian Run-Off from pole position at Circuit Mont-Tremblant.

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Paul Tracy failed to start the FAQ Challenge Labatt 50 Formula 1600 round at the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve.

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Paul Tracy was fourth overall, with one win at Sanair Super Speedway and three podium finishes for 164 points.

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Paul Tracy raced four rounds of that year's Championnat Formule Ford 1600 du Quebec, winning the third Sanair round and did three races in the British Formula 2000 Championship with two podium finishes.

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Paul Tracy raced a Porsche 944 for Mark Motors in the seven-round Porsche Challenge Series, finishing 17th overall with 40 points.

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Paul Tracy finished 12th in the Rothmans Porsche Canadian Run-Off and 5th in the Formula 2000 Canadian Run-Off in the Buick Grand National 1986 at Mont-Tremblant.

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Paul Tracy took his first Can-Am victory from pole position and became its youngest ever winner at age 17.

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Paul Tracy finished fifth in the Ford Race of Champions at Brands Hatch in England.

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Paul Tracy returned to the United Kingdom in late 1986 to race in the BBC Winter Grandstand Series for Formula Ford 2000 cars, finishing fourth overall, and worked for Van Diemen owner Ralph Firman Sr.

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Paul Tracy won the season-opening Mosport Park round of the 1987 Canadian Formula 2000 Championship in a Trabur Painting-run Reynard 87SF the following year, finishing 15th overall with 59 points.

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Paul Tracy drove a Ralt RT4 car in three rounds of the HFC Formula Atlantic Challenge, finishing 30th in points with nine scored, and had an accident in the SCCA SPI International Formula Atlantic Championship round at Memphis International Raceway.

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Paul Tracy competed in four Porsche Challenge Series rounds, finishing third in Mosport and Montreal.

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Paul Tracy completed his Canadian racing season early in August 1987 since he had nothing to gain by finishing the season.

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Paul Tracy competed in the ten-round New Zealand International Formula Pacific championship in early 1988, finishing third with David Brabham, with two wins at Timaru International Motor Raceway, four podium finishes, and one pole in a Ralt RT4-Ford for Graeme Lawrence Autosport.

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Paul Tracy finished tenth in the final standings with 58 points and was voted ARS Rookie of the Year.

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Paul Tracy's father formed the Maple Leaf Racing team for his son to race in the 1989 ARS season after Paul Tracy was reportedly one of three drivers considered to drive for Footwork's Japanese Formula 3000 squad.

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Paul Tracy finished in the top ten five times in eleven races, with best finishes of second place at Phoenix and Portland International Raceway due to his retirement from most races, and finished eighth in the drivers' championship with 65 points.

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Paul Tracy finished fifth in the 1989 Corvette Challenge round at Toronto with Jumbo Racing.

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Paul Tracy joined team owner Brian Stewart and his Landford Racing team for the 1990 ARS season, acquiring sponsorship but on the condition he would be withdrawn from a race if his father attended an event outside of Toronto and the final round at Laguna Seca.

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Paul Tracy dominated the season with consistency, winning nine of fourteen races and setting records for most pole positions in a season and consecutive victories.

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Paul Tracy led the most laps, despite CART forcing drivers mid-season rule requiring drivers to be alongside each other during a race restart following a yellow flag caution period.

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Paul Tracy finished the season with a season-record 214 points and secured the series title with three races remaining.

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Paul Tracy finished second in the Canadian Formula 2000 Championship race at Mosport Park in a Van Diemen 90RF car.

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Paul Tracy rejected an offer to drive four races for the team.

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Paul Tracy's work had impressed Penske Racing owner Roger Penske, who would surprise the family by calling them while they ate dinner in Scarborough and requesting they meet him in Detroit that same night.

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Paul Tracy was offered a five-year testing contract with no guarantees of competitive driving and had to relocate to Pennsylvania, with Penske not accepting any negotiation or review.

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Paul Tracy would replace Danny Sullivan, testing and developing cars for CART champions Emerson Fittipaldi and Rick Mears, and began a training program to increase muscle and lose weight on Penske's orders.

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Paul Tracy was allowed to enter the season's final two races at Nazareth Speedway and Laguna Seca after going on a therapy program on Fittipaldi's advice, and he finished seventh in the former.

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Paul Tracy was third in the Rookie of the Year standings.

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Paul Tracy raced eleven times for Penske in the 1992 season and tested the team's new Chevrolet V8B engine for Fittipaldi and Mears.

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Paul Tracy lost more weight in the off-season by hiring a trainer and starting a fitness program.

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Paul Tracy drove a year-old PC-19-Chevrolet vehicle before switching to the PC-20-Chevrolet car from Detroit.

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Paul Tracy debuted in the Indianapolis 500 that year, starting 19th and finishing 20th due to a gearbox failure.

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Paul Tracy filled in for the injured Mears at Detroit and again for the rest of the season starting from the Molson Indy Toronto.

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Paul Tracy finished a season-high second in both Detroit and Mid-Ohio and took his first CART pole at Road America.

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Paul Tracy ended the season 12th in the Drivers' Championship with 59 points.

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Paul Tracy stayed with Penske for the 1993 championship and drove full-time after Mears retired, and was trained by the latter.

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Paul Tracy expected to be sacked after Penske tested McLaren's Formula One driver Ayrton Senna at Phoenix, but continued racing for Penske.

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Paul Tracy started second at the Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach, the season's third race, and led 81 of 105 laps for his maiden CART victory.

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Paul Tracy won consecutive races, the Grand Prix of Cleveland at Burke Lakefront Airport after leading 69 laps from pole position, and the Molson Indy Toronto a week later.

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Paul Tracy started the New England 200 at New Hampshire Motor Speedway fourth and led 130 laps before being passed by Nigel Mansell with four laps left for the win.

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Paul Tracy was third in the drivers' standings with 157 points after a late-season duel with Bobby Rahal and Boesel.

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Paul Tracy raced in the new No 3 PC-23 chassis, a rebuild of the previous year's car powered by an improved Ilmor V8 engine.

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Paul Tracy was unreliable in three of the first four races, and was involved in a multi-car crash in Phoenix after qualifying on pole there and in Long Beach.

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Paul Tracy finished in the top ten for the first time in 1994 in the Milwaukee Mile before winning the Detroit Grand Prix after colliding with teammate Al Unser Jr.

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Paul Tracy had five more top fives with podiums in Portland, Cleveland, Mid-Ohio and New Hampshire and took pole position in Elkhart Lake before an engine failure left him 18th.

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Paul Tracy ended 1994 with wins in the Bosch Spark Plug Grand Prix at Nazareth, when he led 192 of 200 laps, and the Bank of America 300 at Laguna Seca, where he started from pole position three weeks later.

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Paul Tracy took the championship lead after finishing fourth at Phoenix, before winning the Miller Genuine Draft 200 at Milwaukee by holding off Unser in the final laps.

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Paul Tracy's left ankle was injured in a karting accident, requiring him to deflate the clutch pedal with a specially built carbon fibre shield over his left racing boot.

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Paul Tracy was sixth in the drivers' standings with 115 points.

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Paul Tracy took over for Fittipaldi, driving the new Penske PC-25 with an updated Mercedes-Benz engine.

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Paul Tracy underwent radial keratotomy to improve his vision, meaning he no longer required glasses.

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Paul Tracy finished the season with three pole positions in 14 races marred by accidents and a noncompetitive car that forced him to push its tyres beyond their capability, six top-ten finishes, including a third-place finish at Milwaukee, and on-track rivalries with Robby Gordon and Michael Andretti.

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Paul Tracy finished 13th in the drivers' championship with 60 points, his worst finish since the 1992 season.

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Paul Tracy remained at Penske for the 1997 season, driving the Penske PC-26-Mercedes-Ilmor car, which was aerodynamically inefficient and lacked grip, especially on road courses.

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Paul Tracy started the season second at Homestead-Miami before colliding with Chip Ganassi Racing's Alex Zanardi at Surfers Paradise and finishing eighth in Long Beach following collisions with Greg Moore and Paul Jasper, respectively.

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Paul Tracy won the following Rio 400 to move into the lead of the points standings and the Motorola 300 at Gateway International Raceway for a third successive victory two weeks later.

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Paul Tracy was fifth in the final points standings with 121.

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Paul Tracy stayed with Team Green for the 1999 season, having signed a contract extension through the 2001 season as a result of the attention for his sponsor following his alteration in Houston.

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Paul Tracy was assigned the retired Tony Cicale as an engineering consultant to work with and make the driver calmer by moderating his expectations of attempting to win every race, and the two had a cordial relationship.

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Paul Tracy achieved one podium finish at Nazareth in the season's first six races.

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Paul Tracy took four more podiums and won his second race of the season at the Texaco Grand Prix of Houston after leading 85 laps.

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Paul Tracy finished third in the championship standings with 161 points.

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Paul Tracy drove Team Green's Reynard 2KI-Honda car for the 2000 season.

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Paul Tracy started the season third at Homestead-Miami and won the following Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach to take the lead in the points standings.

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Paul Tracy held the championship lead for the next five races until he was disqualified from the Detroit round for running over refueller Jeff Simon's foot and fracturing four of his toes during a pit stop, and then retired from the Portland race after crashing.

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Paul Tracy had two top-ten finishes and qualified on pole at Michigan amid three more retirements in the next five races.

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Paul Tracy won successive races in the Motorola 220 at Road America and the following Molson Indy Vancouver after teammate Franchitti stalled during a pit stop to return to championship contention.

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Paul Tracy finished fourth in Houston and crashed twice more in Gateway and Surfers Paradise in the following four races.

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Paul Tracy stayed with Team Green for the 2001 season and drove a Reynard 01I-Honda; in August 2000, he accepted the option of signing a four-year contract extension with the team through the 2005 season after rejecting a three-year contract offer from Team Forsythe to replace Carpentier when Green was willing to match Forsythe's offer.

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Paul Tracy looked forward to sharing information with new technical partner Michael Andretti, but he was separated in pit lane owing to his slow qualifying pace, which made sharing information difficult.

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Paul Tracy finished no worse than fourth in the first three races and was tied for the championship lead with Cristiano da Matta following the Nazareth event.

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The rest of Paul Tracy's season saw him finish in the top ten four more times, despite an unreliable car, accidents with other drivers, and pit lane blunders that dropped him down the points standings.

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Paul Tracy finished 14th in the championship standings with 73 points, his first winless season since 1998.

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Paul Tracy had two top-ten finishes in the season's first three races.

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Paul Tracy took the lead at the start of the Miller Lite 250 in Milwaukee and led 184 of the 250 laps to claim his first win of the season.

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Paul Tracy earned three more podium finishes and three other top-ten finishes in the final 14 races for 11th overall and 101 points.

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Paul Tracy took up cycling to lose weight and improve his fitness before the season began.

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Paul Tracy won the season-opening Grand Prix of St Petersburg after leading 71 of 105 laps.

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Paul Tracy reclaimed the points lead with three straight podium finishes and pole position in Portland.

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Paul Tracy led the whole Molson Indy Toronto from pole position and a race-high 77 laps of the following Molson Indy Vancouver from another pole to become the first Canadian driver win two Canadian races in the same year.

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Paul Tracy lost the championship lead to Junqueira again after crashing out in the Mario Andretti Grand Prix at Road America, which Junqueira won, but led 69 laps of the Champ Car Grand Prix of Mid-Ohio to win and reclaim the lead when Junqueira crashed.

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Paul Tracy won his first CART championship and the Vanderbilt Cup by finishing 13th in the wet-weather Lexmark Indy 300, while Junqueira crashed with 10 laps remaining.

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Paul Tracy was loyal to the CCWS, considering their cars better and found street circuits more of a challenge.

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Paul Tracy started third in the Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach, the season's first race, and won after leading 78 laps.

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Paul Tracy finished in the top ten in three of the next five races and took pole in Cleveland.

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Paul Tracy traded verbal jabs with driver with driver Alex Tagliani, accusing him of impeding him for 12 laps in Portland and blaming him for causing a first-lap accident he was involved in Cleveland.

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Paul Tracy returned to Forsythe for the 2005 season to drive the No 3 car.

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Paul Tracy started on pole position at the season-opening Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach and finished second.

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Paul Tracy then won the Grand Prix of Cleveland from pole position, leading 46 of 91 laps and taking the championship lead from Sebastien Bourdais.

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Paul Tracy lost the points lead to Bourdais when his car ran out of fuel in the following Molson Indy Toronto after the two were involved in an unrelated collision at the pit lane exit.

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Paul Tracy led a race-high 107 laps in the Hurricane Relief 400 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway before being hit in the rear by Bourdais, ending his race early.

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Paul Tracy placed fourth in the championship standings with 246 points.

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Paul Tracy was seventh in the drivers' standings with 209 points.

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In May 2006, emboldened by rumours of an IRL-CCWS merger, Paul Tracy signed a five-year extension, preferring open-wheel cars after pondering full-time stock car racing.

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Paul Tracy was replaced by Servia for the next two races, and his preparation was limited before resuming competition in Portland.

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Paul Tracy overcame separate crashes with Graham Rahal and Junqueira in the Grand Prix of Cleveland to win by leading the final 26 laps without stopping.

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Paul Tracy had to renegotiate his contract with Forsythe for the 2008 season or be fired.

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Paul Tracy agreed to stay with Forsythe after speaking with IRL chief Tony George about joining the IRL since he feared his CCWS seat was at risk.

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Paul Tracy made no more appearances with Vision Racing due to George's sponsorship problems.

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Paul Tracy finished in the top ten in three races, including a season-best sixth place in Edmonton.

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Paul Tracy continued to race part-time in IndyCar in the 2010 season.

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Paul Tracy did not qualify for the Indianapolis 500 because his car was slow and race strategist Barry Green deleted the time in vain, expecting Tracy to drive faster.

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Paul Tracy signed a five-year sponsorship deal and was due to drive full-time with KV Racing Technology-Lotus in the 2011 championship, but sponsorship funding from driver Tony Kanaan shortly before the season began in St Petersburg meant he was dropped from the team.

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Paul Tracy finished each of the six races held outside of the top ten places.

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Paul Tracy was involved in a 15-car accident that killed Dan Wheldon at the season-ending IZOD IndyCar World Championship in Las Vegas.

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Paul Tracy started talking to some racing teams since he wanted to drive full-time in IndyCar for the 2012 season, not part-time, otherwise he would not compete.

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Paul Tracy was close to signing a contract to drive a Dallara DW12 car for Michael Shank Racing but the team could not get enough financial backing to enter the season-opening Honda Grand Prix of St Petersburg, preventing him from participating in his final planned season.

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Paul Tracy tested the Benetton Formula team's B194 F1 car at the Circuito do Estoril in September 1994, at the invitation of F1 commercial rights owner Bernie Ecclestone, who sought to bring a CART driver to F1 as other F1 drivers had transferred to the highly popular CART championship.

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Paul Tracy did well in the test but declined Benetton's three-year testing contract because there was no guarantee of racing or adequate pay.

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In 2005, Paul Tracy made his Rolex Sports Car Series debut in the 24 Hours of Daytona with Kodak-Bell Motorsports.

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Paul Tracy began competing in NASCAR's Busch Series in the No 34 Chevrolet Monte Carlo for five races in the 2006 season with Frank Cicci Racing and Jim Kelly Racing that were not on the same weekend as any CCWS rounds.

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Paul Tracy exhibited an interest in NASCAR as early as 1999, and Barnett helped him secure finance.

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Funding was raised for Paul Tracy to enter ten races but Forsythe wanted him to do five.

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Paul Tracy drove Biagi Brothers Racing's No 34 Dodge Charger in the Telcel-Motorola 200 at Mexico City.

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Paul Tracy had his season-best finish of 24th at the season-opening Hershey's Kissables 300 at Daytona International Speedway, after starting 40th.

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Paul Tracy planned to race for Riley-D'Hondt Motorsports in six races of the 2007 Busch Series with the possibility of driving the Car of Tomorrow in the Nextel Cup Series but instead focused on his CCWS career.

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Paul Tracy drove one Craftsman Truck Series race in Germain Racing's No 9 Toyota Tundra late in the 2008 season.

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Paul Tracy impressed team owner Bob Germain enough at Chicagoland Speedway in Todd Bodine's truck to sign a one-race contract, and raced in Texas rather than Las Vegas as intended, due to a Texas-based sponsor's intervention.

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Paul Tracy partnered Jon Bennett, Colin Braun and Lowe in Doran's No 77 Dallara-Ford car in the 2013 24 Hours of Daytona, finishing 48th overall after he collided with Simon Pagenaud in the tenth hour.

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Paul Tracy finished in the top ten in four of the five races, with his best series performance of fourth in the second 2014 Toronto event.

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Paul Tracy drove two rounds of the Trans-Am Series at Road Atlanta and Indianapolis in Coleman Motorsports's No 87 Chevrolet Camaro after being invited to enter a race during the 2018 season.

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Paul Tracy finished seventh at Road Atlanta and 20th at Indianapolis.

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Paul Tracy contested the Bathurst 12 Hour for the first time in 2019 on the recommendation of NBC Sports commentator Leigh Diffey as a replacement for the injured Boris Said.

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Paul Tracy finished 14th in the first race and 15th in the second.

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Paul Tracy returned to the Trans-Am Series in the TA2 category for the 2020 season, driving the No 81 3-Dimensional Services Group Ford Mustang at the Circuit of the Americas round, replacing Doug Peterson.

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Paul Tracy was disqualified from the race by the stewards for two illegal manoeuvres.

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Paul Tracy was invited to drive in the Mercedes-Benz category of the season-ending round of the SC Super Copa at the Autodromo Miguel E Abed in Pubela.

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Paul Tracy was twelfth in the first race and ninth in the second.

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Paul Tracy finished in the top ten in four out of six races with a best finish of fifth at both Eldora Speedway and Nashville Fairgrounds Speedway for seventh in the drivers' standings with 121 points.

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Paul Tracy was sixth in the final championship standings with 118 points.

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Paul Tracy was suspended from SRX competition on July 28,2023, following a five-car accident he started in the 2023 season's third round at Pulaski County Motorsports Park.

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Paul Tracy did not return to SRX for the rest of the season.

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Paul Tracy accepted an invitation from the NASCAR Brasil Series to compete in the Autodromo Velo Citta round of the 2023 NASCAR Brasil Sprint Race.

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Paul Tracy won the first race, his first auto racing victory since 2007.

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Paul Tracy made his second appearance in the Bathurst 12 Hour in 2024 alongside Geoff Emery, Daniel Stutterd and Max Twigg in sharing TekworkX's Invitational-category IRC GT car, finishing second in class despite damaging the car in wet conditions.

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Paul Tracy drove the No 10 Race Cars for You IRC GT vehicle in the XGT category for the opening two rounds of the 2025 Trans-Am Series, winning in his class at Sebring International Raceway.

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Paul Tracy has had an aggressive driving style from childhood, which he carried over into CART and was noted for his car control.

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Sports car driver Ron Fellows observed that Paul Tracy had learnt some of his technique in Europe and likened his karting style to Fittipaldi and Senna.

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Paul Tracy has a propensity for sliding a car into a turn with the rear-end out, which he has desired since he started kart racing.

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Paul Tracy was known by fans for driving his car in places that most drivers did not consider, and he frequently crashed as a result.

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Paul Tracy had an supporting role on an episode of the 1980s television programme The Littlest Hobo, and was a guest on the November 7,2003 episode of the Late Show with David Letterman.

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Paul Tracy appeared in 13 episodes of the 2010 Speed competition series Battle of the Supercars.

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Paul Tracy analysed IndyCar races for Canadian broadcaster Sportsnet during the 2013 season, before joining NBCSN's IndyCar Series broadcast team in the same role from the 2014 season.

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Paul Tracy was investigated by NBC Sports in late 2018 for allegedly posting a racist comment about immigrants on social media, but it cleared him after determining that he was not the author.

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Paul Tracy worked as an NBCSN analyst at the 24 Hours of Daytona, before gradually reducing his broadcasting role owing to his SRX commitments and leaving the network after the 2021 season when his contract was not renewed.

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Paul Tracy was named to CART's All-Star Team for both 1999 and 2000 and was voted the series' Most Improved Driver of 1999.

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Paul Tracy was voted CART's Most Popular Driver of 2002 and 2003.

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Paul Tracy is an inductee of the Long Beach Motorsports Walk of Fame, the Canadian Motorsport Hall of Fame, and the Road to Indy Hall of Fame.

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Paul Tracy received an honorary diploma from Fanshawe College in November 2016.

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Paul Tracy has done business with companies such as Goodyear, General Motors Canada, Molson, Snap-On Tools, No Fear, Yeti Cycles, and Spy Sunglasses.

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Paul Tracy is the owner of the Harley-Davidson motorcycle parts and apparel firm Black Label Baggers.

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Paul Tracy was part of Team Green's and African American mentoring organization 100 Black Men of America's program to donate money to buy computers for youngsters in urban areas for better accessibility to technology based on his performance in five races in 2001.

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In 2007, Paul Tracy joined a three-year campaign run by the Ontario Safety League against street racing in the Greater Toronto Area, and at the 2009 Edmonton Indy, raised awareness of the Wounded Warriors Canada non-profit charity that supports wounded Canadian troops overseas.

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Paul Tracy has been married three times: he married nursing student and high school sweetheart Tara Cormier on February 13,1993, Liisa Hunter in mid-April 1998, and finally Patty Faraci in April 2005.

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Paul Tracy maintains a collection of power boats, classic cars and motorcycles.